What landscape architects need to know. How fresh planting and reused materials help a mid-century library keep its cool. By ...

Before you even think about raising the walls of a new backyard shed, you need a solid foundation. Learn how to pour a ...

The concrete in the garage looks shattered, almost like scorched desert dirt. There, he said, a tunnel may be caving in underground. Follow the cracks to the backyard, which drops off.

Segmental retaining walls SRWs are a subset of gravity retaining walls that use modular, interlocking concrete units to retain soil. These dry-stacked units rely on their mass and interlocking ...

According to cables from the time of the eruption, 19.6 million cubic yards of lava poured out of Eldfell in its first 40 hours. If it were concrete, it would be enough to pour more than four Hoover ...

Concrete is so prevalent today that it’s hard to imagine that at one time it was considered cutting-edge. Spurred by the opening of the St. Louis Portland Cement Company on the Far North Riverfront ...

Concrete is poured into the conventional island's inner retaining wall (Image: CNNC) "According to the design characteristics, the conventional island of the small reactor project is divided into the ...

Another advantage of CMU retaining walls is their flexibility. Where a crack is typically a death sentence for a poured wall, a damaged concrete block is easy enough to replace. That said, concrete ...

Sometime next year, we might have an opportunity for a sneak peek inside the David Geffen Galleries, the new permanent collection building under construction on the Los Angeles County Museum of ...

Raised patios are more expensive, time-consuming and complex to build, since retaining walls, caps and other reinforcements must be built as well. Raised patios cost between $2,000 and $6,600.